The paper "The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable" uses the term "Service Abstraction" - "This terminology emphasizes, following Kay, that objects are not primarily about representing and manipulating data, but are more about providing services in support of higher-level goals" It goes on to give examples of how service abstractions arise in a lot of places including the linux kernel.
The paper "The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable" uses the term "Service Abstraction" - "This terminology emphasizes, following Kay, that objects are not primarily about representing and manipulating data, but are more about providing services in support of higher-level goals" It goes on to give examples of how service abstractions arise in a lot of places including the linux kernel.